AOpen MK79 Online Manual

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Overview

Hardware

Installation

Drivers &

Utilities

AWARD

BIOS Setup

Glossary

Troubleshooting &

Technical Support

MK79

DOC. NO.: MK79-OL-E0210A

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MK79 .............................................................................................................................................1

What’s in this manual ...................................................................................................................................................... 2

You Must Notice .............................................................................................................................................................. 8

Before You Start .............................................................................................................................................................. 9

Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 10

Feature Highlight........................................................................................................................................................... 11

Quick Installation Procedure ......................................................................................................................................... 14

Motherboard Map .......................................................................................................................................................... 15

Block Diagram............................................................................................................................................................... 16

Hardware Installation................................................................................................................17

JP14 Clear CMOS Data ................................................................................................................................................ 18

CPU Installation ............................................................................................................................................................ 19

CPU Jumper-less Design .............................................................................................................................................. 21

CPU and Housing Fan Connector ................................................................................................................................. 24

JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup Enable/Disable Jumper ............................................................................................... 26

DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................... 27

STBY LED ..................................................................................................................................................................... 29

Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 30

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ATX Power Connector ................................................................................................................................................... 31

AC Power Auto Recovery .............................................................................................................................................. 32

IDE and Floppy Connector ............................................................................................................................................ 33

IrDA Connector ............................................................................................................................................................. 35

AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) 4X Expansion Slot...................................................................................................... 36

AGP Protection Technology and AGP LED .................................................................................................................... 37

ACR Slot ....................................................................................................................................................................... 38

PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ..................................................................................................................................... 39

COM2 Connector .......................................................................................................................................................... 40

Support 2

nd

and 3

rd

USB (1.1) Port ................................................................................................................................ 41

Chassis Intrusion Sensor Connector ............................................................................................................................. 42

CD Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................... 43

AUX-IN Connector......................................................................................................................................................... 44

Front Audio Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 45

Battery-less and Long Life Design................................................................................................................................. 46

CPU Over-current Protection......................................................................................................................................... 47

AOConfig Utility............................................................................................................................................................. 48

Resetable Fuse ............................................................................................................................................................. 50

2200

μ

F

Low ESR Capacitor......................................................................................................................................... 51

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Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) ................................................................................................................................. 52

Driver and Utility .......................................................................................................................53

Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD Disc ............................................................................................................................. 54

nVIDIA nForce Drivers .................................................................................................................................................. 55

The noise is gone!! ---- SilentTek .................................................................................................................................. 56

Phoenix Award BIOS..................................................................................................................59

How To Use Phoenix Award™ BIOS Setup Program..................................................................................................... 60

How To Enter BIOS Setup ............................................................................................................................................. 62

BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ................................................................................................................. 63

Overclocking..............................................................................................................................65

VGA Card & Hard Disk .................................................................................................................................................. 66

Glossary .................................................................................................................................... 67

AC97 ............................................................................................................................................................................. 67

ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ....................................................................................................... 67

AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port).................................................................................................................................... 67

AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)............................................................................................................................................ 68

AOpen Bonus Pack CD ................................................................................................................................................. 68

APM (Advanced Power Management)........................................................................................................................... 68

ATA (AT Attachment) ..................................................................................................................................................... 68

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ATA/66 .......................................................................................................................................................................... 68

ATA/100 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 69

ATA/133 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 69

BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ................................................................................................................................ 69

Bus Master IDE (DMA mode) ........................................................................................................................................ 69

CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)................................................................................................................ 70

CODEC (Coding and Decoding) .................................................................................................................................... 70

DDR (Double Data Rate) RAM ...................................................................................................................................... 70

DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module) ............................................................................................................................ 71

DMA (Direct Memory Access)........................................................................................................................................ 71

ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ........................................................................................................................... 71

EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory .......................................................................................................................... 71

EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM).................................................................................................... 72

EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)....................................................................................................................... 72

EV6 Bus ........................................................................................................................................................................ 72

FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ........................................................................................................................... 72

FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array) ................................................................................................................................ 72

Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................... 73

FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock .......................................................................................................................................... 73

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C Bus .......................................................................................................................................................................... 73

IEEE 1394..................................................................................................................................................................... 74

Parity Bit ....................................................................................................................................................................... 74

PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)................................................................................................................................. 74

PC-100 DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................... 75

PC-133 DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................... 75

PC-1600 / PC-2100/ PC-2700 / PC-3200 DDR DRAM................................................................................................... 75

PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ................................................................................................................... 75

PDF Format................................................................................................................................................................... 76

PnP (Plug and Play) ...................................................................................................................................................... 76

POST (Power-On Self Test) .......................................................................................................................................... 76

RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) ............................................................................................................................................. 76

RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ........................................................................................................................ 77

SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) ...................................................................................................................................... 77

Shadow E

2

PROM .......................................................................................................................................................... 77

SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ......................................................................................................................... 77

SMBus (System Management Bus)............................................................................................................................... 78

SPD (Serial Presence Detect) ....................................................................................................................................... 78

Ultra DMA ..................................................................................................................................................................... 78

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USB (Universal Serial Bus) ........................................................................................................................................... 79

VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)..................................................................................................................................... 79

ZIP file........................................................................................................................................................................... 79

Troubleshooting.........................................................................................................................80

Technical Support .....................................................................................................................84

Product Registration .................................................................................................................87

How to Contact Us ....................................................................................................................88

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Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat is trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

AMD, the AMD logo, Athlon and Duron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4 are trademarks of Intel Corporation.

Microsoft, Windows, and Windows logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United

States and/or other countries.

All product and brand names used on this manual are used for identification purposes only and may be the registered

trademarks of their respective owners.

All of the specifications and information contained in this manual are subject to change without notice. AOpen reserves the right

to revise this publication and to make reasonable changes. AOpen assumes no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies that

may appear in this manual, including the products and software described in it.

This documentation is protected by copyright law. All rights are reserved.

No part of this document may be used or reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval

system without prior written permission from AOpen Corporation.

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This Online Manual will introduce to the user how this product is installed. All useful information will be described in later

chapters. Please keep this manual carefully for future upgrades or system configuration changes. This Online Manual is saved

in PDF format

, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can

get free download from Adobe web site

.

Although this Online Manual is optimized for screen viewing, it is still capable for hardcopy printing, you can print it by A4 paper

size and set 2 pages per A4 sheet on your printer. To do so, choose File > Page Setup and follow the instruction of your printer

driver.

Thanks for the help of saving our earth.

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Thank you for choosing AOpen MK79. The MK79 is based on AMD

®

Socket 462 motherboard with micro ATX form factor

featuring the NVIDIA nForce™ (IGP and MCP-D)

. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, the MK79 supports AMD

®

Socket 462 series Athlon™ & Duron™ and AthlonXP™ processor and 266/200MHz EV6 system bus. For better graphic

performance, GeForce2 GPU 3D Graphics is integrated into the NVIDIA nForce for delivering rich,real-time 3D images and

animation consumes valuable system Bandwidth. MK79 supports 1.5V AGP interface with AGP 4x with Fast Write data transfer,

which pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 1056MB/sec. This motherboard comes with high speed of 6.4Gb/sec

HyperTransport, the Isochronous Link between NVIDIA IGP

and MCP-D. DDR266

and DDR200 DDR RAM are applied to

the maximum memory size of up to 1GB. The on-board IDE

controller supports Ultra DMA

33/66/100 mode and the

transfer rate up to 100MB/s. Besides, the MK79 has an

AC97

CODEC RealTek ALC202A chipset onboard for

provides high performance and magic surround stereo

sound to let people enjoy working with it.

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CPU

Supports AMD

®

Socket 462 series CPU with 200MHz and 266MHz, EV6 Bus designed for Socket 462 technology.

Athlon: 600MHz~1.4GHz

Duron: 600MHz~1.2GHz

AthlonXP: 1500+(1.33GHz)~2600+(2.06GHz)

Chipset

The NVIDIA nForce™2 consists of the nVIDIA nForce IGP and MCP-D, which using TwinBank™ Memory Architecture, a

Dynamic Adaptive Speculative processor (DASP) to help boost CPU performance and the HyperTransport, a high performance

I/O bus interface with high speed of 6.4Gb/sec. Integrated in this excellent chipset is the Geforce2 GPU, which could provide

amazing 3D visual performance to create rich, real-time 3D images and animation and Dolby

®

Digital 3D audio. Of two PCI slots

provided, MK79 supports all master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus.

Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus Master IDE

Embedded within nVIDIA MCP-D, this motherboard equipped with Ultra DMA 33/66/100 that supports two connectors, and that

means four IDE devices in two channels, and supports Enhanced IDE devices.

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Expansion Slots

Including two 32-bit/33MHz PCI and one AGP 4X slot. The PCI local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. The Accelerated

Graphics Port (AGP) specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed with data transfer rate up to

1056MB/s. For AD and SBA signaling, MK79 can support 133MHz 2X/4X mode.

Memory

With NVIDIA nForce™2 chipsets, the MK79 supports Double-Data-Rate (DDR) RAM. The DDR RAM interface allows zero wait

state bursting between the RAM and the data buffers at 266/200 MHz. The four banks of DDR RAM can be composed of an

arbitrary mixture of 64, 128, 256, 512MB DDR RAM and maximum up to 1GB. The MK79 allows DDR RAM to run at either

synchronous or pseudo-synchronous mode with the host CPU bus frequency (266/200MHz).

On-board AC97 Sound

MK79 uses the AC97 CODEC RealTek ALC202A chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback

system.

ACR Slot

On the strength of nForce MCP-D on chip, which is a highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it provides 10/100 Mbps

Ethernet for office and home use. You may use ACR slot with LAN card connected for network access.

Six USB (1.1) Connectors

Provides three ports, six USB connectors for USB interface devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc.

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Power Management/Plug and Play

The MK79 supports the power management function that confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program. It also offers

Plug-and-Play

, which helps saving users from configuration

problems, thus making the system much more user-friendly.

Hardware Monitoring Management

Supports CPU or system fans status, temperature and voltage monitoring and alert, through the on-board hardware monitor

module and

AOpen Hardware Monitoring Utility

.

Enhanced ACPI

Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows

®

95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR

(Suspend to RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) features.

Super Multi-I/O

The MK79 provides one high-speed UART compatible serial port, one VGA port and one parallel port with EPP and ECP

capabilities.

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This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly.

1. Installing CPU and Fan

2. Installing System Memory (DIMM)

3. Connecting Front Panel Cable

4. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable

5. Connecting ATX Power Cable

6. Connecting Back Panel Cable

7. Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default

8. Setting CPU Frequency

9.

10.

Reboot

Installing Driver and Utility

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Motherboard Map

PC99 Colored Back Panel

Resetable Fuse

ATX Power

STBY LED

Connector

SYSFAN3 Connector

AGP LED

AGP 4x Expansion Slot

JP17 Host Clock Selection

(For 1.5V AGP and ADD card only)

462-pin CPU Socket with Voltage

and Frequency Auto-Detection that

supports AMD

TM

Athlon

TM

/Duron

TM

/

and Athlon

TM

XP

NVIDIA nForce IGP and MCP-D

CPUFAN1 Connector

184-pin DIMMx2 supports

DDR266/200

(Max. to 1GB)

IDE Connector x 2

(ATA/33/66/100 supported)

FDD Connector

Black:

CD

-

IN Connector

O

RealTek ALC202A

nboard AC97 CODEC

Front Audio Connector

Green: AUX-IN Connector

32-bit PCI Ex

p

ansion Slot x2

2

nd

USB (1.1) Port Connector

IrDA Connector

SYSFAN2 Connector

Front Panel Connector

Chassis Intrusion Sensor Connector

JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup

2Mb Phoenix Award BIOS

WOL (Wake on LAN) Connector

JP14 Clear CMOS Jumper

3

rd

USB

(

1.1

)

Port Connector

COM2 Connector

ACR Slot

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NVIDIA

nForce2 IGP

Socket 462

AMD

Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP

CPU

100/133MHz

System Bus

DDR SDRAM Socket x2

AGP 4X Slot

MCP-D

Serial Port x1

2

nd

USB Port

1

st

USB Port

USB (1.1) connector x6

32-bit PCI Slot x3

Parallel Port

IDE Drive x4

ATA

33/66/100

DDR266/200

DDR RAM Up to 1GB

Primary

Channel

Secondary

Channel

2MBit Flash EEPROM

Audio CODEC

AC’97 Link

PCI Bus

AGP Bus

Floppy Disk Drive x2

VGA onboard

3

rd

USB Port

ACR slot

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This chapter describes jumpers, connectors and hardware devices of this motherboard.

Note: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards,

and other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system

component.

1. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it.

2. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a

component. If a wrist strap is not available, maintain contact with the system unit throughout

any procedures requiring ESD protection.

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You can clear CMOS to restore system default setting. To clear the CMOS, follow the procedures below.

1. Turn off the system and unplug the AC power.

2. Remove ATX power cable from connector PWR2.

3. Locate JP14 and short pins 2-3 for a few seconds.

4. Return JP14 to its normal setting by shorting pin 1 & pin 2.

5. Connect ATX power cable back to connector PWR2.

Pin 1

Tip: When should I Clear CMOS?

1. Boot fail because of overclocking…

2. Forget password…

3. Troubleshooting…

1

Clear CMOS

Normal Operation

(default)

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This motherboard supports AMD

®

Athlon™ & Duron™ and AthlonXP™ Socket 462 series CPU. Be careful of CPU orientation

when you plug it into CPU socket.

2. Locate Pin 1 in the socket and look for a black dot or cut edge on the

CPU upper interface. Match Pin 1 and cut edge, then insert the CPU into

the socket.

1. Pull up the CPU socket lever and

up to 90-degree angle.

CPU socket

Lever

CPU pin 1

and cut edge

Black dot

and cut edge

Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.

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3. Press down the CPU socket lever and finish

CPU installation.

CPU cut edge

Note: If you do not match the CPU

socket Pin 1 and CPU cut edge well, it

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Note: This picture is for example only, it may not exactly be the same motherboard.

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